Incorporating Music into Childrens Programming

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Incorporating Music into Childrens Programming

• Vern Waters

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Put Your Thumb in the Air -Joe Scruggs (from his
album Deep in the Jungle)
Put your thumb in the air, and shake it around,
Put your thumb in the air, and shake it
around Put your thumb in the air, and shake it
around, Now put it on your head, and leave it
there. Put your elbow in the air, and shake it
around (3 times)now put it on your knee and
leave it there. Put your tongue in the air, and
shake it around (3 times)now put it on your lip
and leave it there. Put your chin in the air, and
shake it around (3 times)now put it on your
chest, and leave it there. Put your ear in the
air, and shake it around (3 times)now put it on
your shoulder, and leave it there. Put your other
ear in the air, and shake it around (3 times)now
put it on your other shoulder, and leave it
there. Put your other thumb in the air, and shake
it around (3 times)now put it somewhere else


Impossible verse?
Austin Texas, Shadow Play Records, 1987
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All Children Are Musical!

• The participation and modeling of parents and
  caregivers, regardless of their musical ability,
  is essential to a childs musical growth.
• This growth is best achieved in a playful,
  developmentally appropriate, non-performance

• Therefore
• All children can achieve basic music competence.
• The Center for Music and Young Children defines
  basic music competence as audiation and
  expression of meter by rhythmically accurate
  movement and tonality by in-tune singing.

-Source Music Together
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Ideas for SongsSchool Visits, Library Tours

• Itsy Bitsy Spider
• Three Little Birds
• Three Little Bees
• Two Little Blackbirds
• Two Little Blackbirds
• Ghost Chickens

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Hello Song

• Hello everybody, so glad to see you!
• Hello everybody, Im so glad to see you!
• Hello to (name), so glad to see you!
• Hello to (name), so glad to see you too!
• Hello, Everybody, so glad to see you

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Clap Your Hands

• Clap, clap, clap your hands,
• Clap your hands together.
• Clap, clap, clap your hands,
• Clap your hands together.
• Sing music again using la.

Other verses Tap your feet, walk around Sneak
around, jump around Alternatives Shake your
eggs, tap your sticks
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Trot Old Joe

• Trot, Old Joe,
• Trot, Old Joe,
• You ride better than any horse I know,
• Trot, Old Joe,
• Trot, Old Joe,
• Youre the best horse in the country-o,
• Whoa, Joe!

Variations Gallop, run, clomp, plod, upside
down, roll, turn, scratch, feed, brush, tiptoe
Joe,
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John the Rabbit

• John the Rabbit, yes ma'am.
• Had a mighty habit, yes ma'am.
• Of jumping in my garden, yes ma'am.
• Pulling up my cabbage, yes ma'am.
• My sweet potatoes, yes ma'am.
• My fresh tomatoes, yes ma'am.
• And if I live, yes ma'am.
• To see next fall, yes ma'am
• I ain't gonna have, yes ma'am.
• No garden at all, no ma'am.

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Egg (Stick) Tune

• Hey, hey, whad-d ya say, lets all shake our
  eggs to-day!
• Ba dum, bum bum ba dum.
• Ba dum, bum bum ba dum.
• Ba dum, bum bum ba dum.
• Hey, hey, whad-d ya say, lets all shake our
  eggs to-day!

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Su La Li

• Su la li,
• Su la li,
• Su la Su.
• Su la li,
• su la li
• Su la li,
• su

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The More We Read Together

• The more we read together, together,
  together,the more we read together, the happier
  we'll be.
• For your friends are my friends, and my
  friends are your friends.
• The more we read together, the happier we'll
  be.

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Goodbye, So Long, Farewell

• Goodbye, so long, farewell my friends, Goodbye,
  so long, farewell, Well see you soon again, my
  friends, so goodbye, so long farewell.
• Goodbye to (name), goodbye to (different name),
  goodbye, so long, farewell. Goodbye to everybody
  here, goodbye, so long, farewell.
• Goodbye, so long, farewell my friends, Goodbye,
  so long, farewell, Well see you soon again, and
  then, well make music together again.
• And how bout a hug for your mom or dad, or the
  one who takes care of you? And a hug or a
  handshake for your friends, and then how bout
  one just for yourself, too?

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• Thank You So Much!
• -Vern Waters, Librarian/Branch Manager
• Southwest Branch
• Weber County Library System